Heart Like a Dog

The Good, the Bad, and the Oh My God of living with dogs!

Follow-Up Friday

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For those new to the blog, my follow-up Friday provides me with an opportunity to update or revise a post from the previous week. 

You know sometimes you post about something and you need an update but it doesn’t warrant a whole blog.  Or sometimes someone made a comment that really resonated with you.  Yup, Follow-Up Friday baby! 🙂

Merry Christmas – Author’s Note

The photo in this blog post was actually taken three years ago by my friend Dawn.  She came out to the house and took about a couple HUNDRED photos of the dogs, the dogs and my grandson, the dogs and me.   

I had trouble finding a photo where 1) both dogs were actually semi-looking at the camera and 2) where my ‘girls’ weren’t hanging out.   

I realized when I was writing this post that three years ago, I wouldn’t care if my ‘girls were hanging out.’  I wonder what that says about me now?

Delilah 1, Ornaments 0 – Author’s Note

She hasn’t been at the tree since she destroyed that ornament, BUT the gates haven’t been off either. 🙂

Back To Work – Author’s Note

Well I didn’t win the money for the Social Media blitz, but I did get a LOT of twitter followers….trouble is I’m not very good at tweeting. 🙁

Also our human friend at 2 Brown Dawgs was wondering where the lab was that these beagles were rescued from and why the details were somewhat vague.

Good observation.  After doing a little research myself (without harming any dogs of course) 🙂  I found a web article that indicated the lab was in Northern California.

My only thought as to why the name of the lab wasn’t released is because if people knew where the labs were that tested on animals, people would be protesting like the Occupy Wall Street movement.  I know I would certainly be writing letters if I couldn’t be there in person!

This And That – Author’s Note

Kirsten over at Peaceful Dog noted that her foster dog Fozzie (go on now take a look, he is certainly one gorgeous boy) “likes to poop over the course of half a block…and then kick dirt over all of it.”

Did I forget to mention that is a Delilah trait?  I will tell you that sometimes we call her “Delilah shit walker.”  I know it’s mean, but I never said I was nice. 🙂

I’ve actually been bent down when she decided after she was about 20 feet away, to kick dirt over her stuff.   Luckily I looked up BEFORE the dirt hit me in the face.

That’s it for me, how was YOUR week?

This And That

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My post today is a little bit of this and a little bit of that.  Neither one was really enough  to make a complete blog post about, so I kind of combined them.

This is about Sampson’s potty habits.  Like a lot of people Sampson is particular about where he potties.  When he was younger, he wouldn’t do his number two business just anywhere, in fact at daycare he would hold it all day and first thing he would do when he came home would be to run into the backyard and drop the kids off.

As he’s gotten older he has become a little less rigid about where he goes, but I do notice when we are out walking he will run ahead and if I by chance I happen to catch up to him, I notice him off in the woods popping a squat.   He will then run off like he is 5 pounds lighter, bouncing and frolicking like a small puppy.

Imagine my surprise yesterday when I picked them up from daycare and while I was settling Delilah into the car, I noticed Sampson up by the fire hydrant taking a dump!  I hurried over to where the pooper scooper is kept and when I looked up; he had moved from the fire hydrant across the driveway and was finishing his poop by the mailbox!

Enough of This.

That is about someone who won’t be named leaving the package of fire starter within munching level of a certain chocolate lab.

Delilah is like my little shadow. Normally wherever I am you can be sure she is close behind.  Which is why when I got out of the bathroom this morning and she wasn’t laying on the bed, I knew she was up to something.

Sure enough I went out into the living room to find her chomping on the fire starter.

Rest assured the fire starter is not toxic to your dog; I know this because this isn’t our first dance with the fire starter.  I will however be watching her to make sure she isn’t bound up from all that fiber.

Finally, just some quick pictures of what crossed my path on my way in to work this morning.

Lucky for them Thanksgiving was last month.

Back To Work

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You can tell from the lateness of this post that I am back to work today. 🙁

Today is also the last day to enter for your chance to win $112 for yourself and $213 for the charity of your choice.

If you haven’t signed up to follow me and a bunch of other AWESOME bloggers on facebook, twitter and google plus this is your last chance, the contest ends tomorrow at 12:01 am!  You can find the links here.

I had originally been waffling between Labs 4 Rescue and Our Companions as my charity of choice should I be the lucky winner.

Then today I came across this video and it really touched me.

You all know how much I love the Labrador breed, but what a lot of you don’t know is my second love is Beagles.

Yes, I’m sorry Labs 4 Rescue and Our Companions but if I win the cash, the money is going to the Beagle Freedom Program.

Have you chosen your charity already?

 

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